Rail-joint.



M. BARSGHALL.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 15, 1906. 942, 1 27, Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

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M. BARSGHALL.

RAIL JOINT.

APPLICATION FILED Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

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MAX BARSGI-IALL, 0F YORK, N. Y.

BAIL-JOINT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 7, 1909.

Application filed February 15, 1906. Serial No. 301,233.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Max BARSOHALL, a resident of New York city, county,and State, a subject of the King of Saxony, and whose presentpost-office address is No. 20 Boulevard Carabacel, at Nice, in theRepublic of France, have invented new and useful Improvements inRail-Joints, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to railjoints and particularly to that type of railjoints in which a wheel hearing or carrying member is employed to bridgethe gap between the ends of the rails. In constructions of thischaracter the difiiculty is experienced that the rail tread surface atthe joints is widened by the bearing members and differs from the shapesof the tread of new Wheels, and worn wheels with a so called falseflange.

The object of my present invention is to construct a joint of which theseveral parts are in rigid connection with each other where they aresupported by the sleepers, but admit of a free and independent verticaldisplacement of the main rail and the bearing member in the spacebetween the two sleepers whereby the irregularities of the tread of thewheel are more or less compensated.

The invention is illustrated on the accompanying drawing in severalconstructional modifications.

Figure 1 is a section of the joint with a bearing member constructed asa bearing fish rail; Fig. 2 is a section with a bearing memberconstructed as a bearing fish plate; Fig. 3 is a perspective view of themain rail with the filling piece, the wheel bearing member omitted; Fig.4 is a plan of the form of joint as shown in section in Fig. 1; Fig. 5is a section of the joint with differently shaped connecting parts withthe parts shown in position over the sleepers; Fig. 6 is a section ofthe same form of joint in the position between two sleepers; Figs. 7 and8 show the same sections as 5 and 6 applied to hearing fish plates.

The main rail a is in the usual way fastened to the sleeper candconnected by bolts (Z with a hearing member which may be constructedas a bearing fish rail, as shown in Figs. 1, 5 and 6, or as a bearingfish plate as shown in Figs. 2, 7 and 8. Between the web of the rail aand the supporting member is a filling piece 9 which as shown in Fig. 3is provided with supporting pieces extending at the place where therails are fastened to the sleepers, to the head. of the rail and overthe flange of the same, so that over the sleepers all parts of the jointare rigidly connected. Between the sleepers where there is the gapbetween the ends of the rails, these supporting pieces 0 of the fillersg are cut away as shown in Fig. 3, so as to admit at this part of theoint free and independent vertical displacement of the main rail and thebearing member. The filler g with the supporting pieces 0 may beproduced in one piece by the rolling process in which case the centralportion between the parts which are over the sleepers form- 111g thesupporting pieces are cut away, so that as shown in Fig. 3 the fillerfills only the vertical space next to the web of the rail.

In the constructional form shown in Fig. 1 the bearing member consistsin a bearing fish rail; in such case the space between the filling piece0 and the bearing fish rail contains a second filler f over the sleepersto allow a second connect-ion of all parts of the joint. The length ofthis filler f either equals about the breadth of the sleepers, or thetotal length of the bearing member.

Figs. 5 and 6 show the bearing fish rail with a varied form of fillingpieces 0 and f, Fig. 5 in the position just over the sleeper and in Fig.6 in the position between two sleepers; this last figure shows the mainrail vertically depressed by a new car wheel; under worn wheels thereverse deflection takes place in so far as in that case the bearingmember has alone to carry the wheel or more of the wheel than the rail.Figs. 7 and 8 show the same construction of the filling piece 0 as 5 and6, applied to bearing fish plates.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates is 1. In a rail joint, the combination of a main rail andsleepers, an auxiliary wheelbearing member disposed to permit yieldingof the rail ends in a vertical direction, rela tively to said memberbetween the sleepers, but rigidly connected with said rail at both ofits ends above the sleepers, a filling piece having enlarged ends of alength substantially equal to the width of said sleepers, and means forrigidly connecting said ends to said rails.

2. In a rail joint, the combination of a main rail and sleepers, of anauxiliary wheel bearing member and a filling piece having first fillerand said fish rail, said filling piece enlarged ends of a lengthsubstantially equal to the width of said sleepers, as set forth.

3. In a rail joint, the combination of a main rail and sleepers, of anauxiliary wheel bearing member, a filling piece substantially of thelength of said auxiliary wheel bearing member, said filling piece havingenlarged ends conforming to the space formed by the base, web and headof said main rail, said ends being rigidly connected with said main railand said auxiliary wheel bearing member, substantially as set forth.

a. In a rail joint, the combination of a main rail and sleepers, of anauxiliary wheel bearing member and filling pieces disposed with theirends substantially over the whole width of the sleepers, said fillingpieces conforming on said ends to the space formed by the base, web andhead of said main rail and disposed between said main rail and saidauxiliary wheel bearing member, the portion of said pieces between thesleepers being of suitable width to allow yielding of the rail endsdisposed between the sleepers, substantially as set forth.

5. In a rail joint, the combination of a main rail and sleepers, of afish rail, a filling piece and a second filling piece between saidsuitably shaped to permit a yielding connection of the rail ends in avertical direction between the sleepers, but a rigid connection of saidends above the sleepers.

6. In a rail joint, the combination of a main rail and sleepers, of afish rail, a filling piece coinciding with the space formed by the base,web and head of said main rail, said filling piece having its endsextending substantially over the width of the sleepers and a secondfilling piece between said first filling piece and said fish ail,substantially as set forth.

7. In a rail joint, the combination of the main rail with a fish rail ashearing member, a filling piece extending above the sleepers from theouter edge of the head of the main rail to over the flange of the same,and a second filling piece between said first filler and the web of thebearing fish rail, US$011- tially as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

MAX BARSCHALL.

\Vitnesses LOUlS Mionxnn, GEO. B. ORLLO.

